This Week at WordPress.org (November 9, 2021)

Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers.

News

• Take the 2021 WordPress Annual Survey (and view the 2020 results)!

Community

• 2022 Goals for the Community Team: Suggestions Invited

Core

New:

• What’s new in Gutenberg 11.9.0 (10 November)
• Performance team meeting summary – November, 9 2021.
• A Week in Core – November 8, 2021.

Ongoing:

• WordPress 5.8.2 RC 1.
• Core Editor Improvement: Introducing template part focus mode.
• WordPress 5.9 Editor Update – 1 November.
• WordPress Performance Team kick off.
• What’s new in Gutenberg 11.8.0? (27 October).
• Webfonts API needs comments. See Testing Instructions.
• Consider changing some theme.json settings to opt-out needs comments.

Design

• Background editor improvements.
• Redesign of the Gutenberg Page.

Openverse

• A Symbol for Openverse.

Plugins

• Reminder: Check Your Accounts’ Emails (and your Committers).

Project

• Suggested iterations for the Five for the Future program and tool.

Test

• FSE Program Testing Call #11: Site Editing Safari.

Training

• A Dedicated Volunteer Program for the Training Team.
• Documentation of Procedures Session.